You have to remember that God is omnipresent. You can find him anywhere.
Shawn1767, are you familiar with the Mendelian Laws of Genetics and the monk who did the experiments to arrive at these basic principles? He is my favorite example of the religious and scientific mind in one person.
And why is it so important to you to silence those who do hold outlandish views anyway? You are obviously wrong when you suggest that all religious people abandon the scientific method; my example is evidence of that. But I have no interest in gagging you in your ignorance.
Stupid question: if the little girl was about to notice the signs about the coming tsunami, why weren’t authorities able to do so?
Not being snarky, just really wondering.
My friend had a tree struck by lightening in her yard. One tree, out of maybe a dozen back there. Her holier than thou neighbor informed her that it was clearly An Act of God. As the workmen were removing the shrapnel and stump, she and I were giggling like mad, envisioning God looking around at all the trees in her yard, admiring his creations. Except. That. Tree. There. He didn’t like *that *fucking tree one bit. Zap!
Really?
Who did this?
The only people who did this were some people looking to sell newspapers.
She would have noticed the shoreline receding, giving about 10 minutes notice. Plenty of time to evacuate a single family. Not a lot of time to evacuate a town.
This makes sense if you accept the gospel according to Tom Waits. “…don’t you know there ain’t no devil, there’s just God when He’s drunk”.
I’m pretty sure all of my fellow drunks, reformed or practicing, know exactly how God could have picked that one tree out. Standing there all leafy, thinks it’s better than Him… only God can make a tree… can unmake it too… stupid tree… <Jasper>that’s a lightnin’</Jasper>. Not the rest of you trees, though. I fuckin’ love you trees, man, just that one, he was… I’m gonna go rest now. It’s the seventh day somewhere.
Egg…zactly!
God didn’t do a very good job of getting Tilly Smith to namecheck him.
She and her family returned to Thailand to read a beautiful and moving poem at the one-year memorial in Khao Lak, where she said:[
](BBC NEWS | UK | Britons commemorate tsunami dead)I think credit should also be given to the adults who actually listened to her and reacted. There was a Japanese woman on Koh Phi Phi who knew what it meant; she ran up and down the beach screaming “tsunami coming” before she got to high ground, but pretty much everyone ignored her.
RandMcnally, in most places the authorities simply didn’t know what the receding tide meant; nor did they have the communications network to broadcast a warning, even if they did. Certainly on Phi Phi, there could have been no deaths at all; everyone could have got above the waterline within ten minutes. As it was, nearly 3,000 people died there.
In Thailand now they have the opposite problem: a tsunami warning system with an itchy trigger finger, which leads to blind panic every time it goes off by accident.